[ILUG-Social] IEDR - Relaxation of Certain Policies / Plain English Guide.

[Daire Garvey]

> Ok, Daire, I'm going to call you on this one. Show me a mechanism that'll
> allow you to do the above, without descending into a free for all, without
> using neutral subdomains. :-)

I think I prefer the idea that a domain name can be registered if no-one
else
at the time of registering as a 'greater' claim to it - rather than not
allowing
a name because at some point in the future there may be a chance that some
company
or association or something *may* come into existence and *might* want that
name.
If the name isn't overly general - "tourism.ie", isn't obviously a well
known name -
"ibm.ie", isn't a trademark of any kind - "guinness.ie", isn't likely to
cause
offense in and of itself "so-and-so-sucks.ie", then why not let people
register
the names?

> As for proposals that *do* use subdomains, I got some in my mail archives
> right here - but the rest of the community just wouldn't bite.

I know, at James Raftery's suggestion I've been reading back through the
previous
IEDR forums. One thing I was thinking of was a number of non-neutral
subdomains
with effective names. Sort of like a bunch of 'sub-IEDRs' that could cater
for
categories of names that IEDR does not.

For example, say a group registered 'people.ie' and then ran DR service for
that
domain, allowing private citizens a chance to register decent domains. It
would
still be first-come-first-served, but not without restrictions (people would
have
to show they were irish nationals etc), and it wouldn't be 'polluting' .ie.
I dunno,
I'm just throwing out suggestions here. Personally I'd prefer
www.daire.people.ie to www.dg01.ie.

D.